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<p n="1774"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2223">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2224">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="1775">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65226_date253">fifteenth<lb></lb>
day of August 1786</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2225">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2226">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex upon an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1775-882">Alice O' Brien</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1776"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1776-1">Michael Mc. Donald</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1511">Porter</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2227">Ivey Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2228">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith that Yesterday about Six o' Clock<lb></lb>
in the Afternoon Dept. was standing upon the<lb></lb>
Platform at Ivey Stairs when he saw<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1776-3">Alice O' Brien</rs>
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the Deced and two other Girls<lb></lb>
Playing in a Barge loaden with Coals<lb></lb>
upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2229">River Thames</rs>
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near Ivey Bridge<lb></lb>
in the Parish aforesd, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
had hold of an Empty Barge and pulled<lb></lb>
it close to the Barge wherein She was, then<lb></lb>
putting her hands upon the Empty, Barge which<lb></lb>
was floating, the Barge got further from<lb></lb>
the Deced and she fell down between the two<lb></lb>
Barges into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2230">River Thames</rs>
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and one<lb></lb>
of the other Girls endeaveared to catch her<lb></lb>
but Missed, Says that in about twelve<lb></lb>
Minutes the Deced was taken up to all<lb></lb>
appearance dead, but some Gentleman<lb></lb>
endeavored for some time to restore the Deced<lb></lb>
to Life but in vain, And Dept. says<lb></lb>
that she was Accidentally Drowned.</p>
<p n="1777">Michael Md. Donald<lb></lb>
<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<lb></lb>
his Mark</p>
<p n="1778">Severally Sworn the<lb></lb>
Day Year & Place above<lb></lb>
mentioned before me}</p>
<p n="1779"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1779-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1512">Coroner</rs>
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